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THE CHECK COLLECTOR

Number 124

THE CHECK COLLECTOR

October - December 2017

Editor: Robert D. Hohertz

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Contents

3 Collecting Territorial Paper 17 -Adams

8 Keep Trying

9 Favorite Checks - Winners

11 Pennsylvania Non-Bank Paper 2 - Hohertz
15 CT RSP Inventory 2 - Woodworth
18 Announcements - Ivester

18 Find in the Marketplace

19 Secretary’s Report - Jones

19 Member Exchange

20 Officers

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Collecting Territorial Paper
Part 17

By Jim Adams

Finding fiscal paper from the Republic of Texas isn't easy. This 1839 warrant was audited in Austin. Texas became a
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The next territory with readily obtainable fiscal paper is
Utah, 1850 - 1896. Our look at examples will begin in
the late 1860s. Until 1864 most banking activities in the
Territory were conducted through Mormon tithing houses
and local businesses who extended credit and engaged in
borrowing and lending.

Utah’s first National Bank was the Miners National Bank
of Salt Lake City, chartered on March 3, 1866. In 1867 a
private bank merged with it, and in 1869 it was taken over
by the First National Bank of Utah.

In TCC 105 we introduced Warren Hussey and Charles
Dahler, but we need to talk about them again here. Warren
Hussey was born in 1836 in Indiana, and went West as a
young man. Charles Dahler was one year older than Hussey.
Born in Prussia, his family brought him to the United States
when he was four. He went West in his early twenties, and
ended up in Montana in 1866, where he remained.

Hussey and Dahler opened their banking business around
1865. There is some confusion between various internet
sources as to whether the bank was opened in Salt Lake City,

A check of the Miners National Bank, number one written
on the account. It is signed by William Letchworth
Patterson, a contractor working on the Union Pacific
Railroad. At the time he was working with William

Miller on construction of the Echo Canyon tunnel. We
will see more Miller and Patterson uses on the next two
pages.

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with branches in Montana, or in Montana with a branch in
Salt Lake. Whichever was the case, they renamed their Salt
Lake operations the First National Bank of Utah. Dahler
took control of the bank in 1872, and it prospered until the
Panic of 1873, when it could not withstand a run on it.

While Dahler found a home in Montana, Hussey spent at
least some of his remaining time (he lived until 1920) in
Salt Lake City. On the website Utah History to Go he is
mentioned as having encouraged the Episcopal Church to
send representatives in 1867. ’’There is no other church in

operation here now but the Mormon. The Catholics will be
here during spring or summer, and probably the Methodists;
and the first here will get most support.”

The site goes on to say, ” Early in the week after the first
service, an organizing meeting was held in the banking
house of Hussey, Dahler & Company. On the committee
then appointed were a Roman Catholic, a Methodist (Mr.
Hussey, who was later confirmed in the Episcopal church
and was the first senior warden at St. Mark’s Parish), and an
apostate Mormon (Thomas D. Brown).’’

An 1867 draft issued by Hussey and Dahler, payable at
their Helena, Montana branch.

A Miners National Bank check made over to be used
with Hussey and Dahler. Apparently Patterson had
funds in both banks.

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dateline of Miller and Pattersons Camp, Echo Summit.
It was used one day after the one cashed in Salt Lake
City shown on the previous page.

Miller and Patterson using actual Hussey and Dahler
paper. The check is payable to Wells, Fargo.

An 1868 draft for $25,000 being presented to B. Reed,
Superintendent of Construction for the Union Pacific
Railroad, payable to Hussey and Dahler. Apparently it
was canceled.

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An 1869 draft of Hussey and Dahler, again payable at
their Helena office, but this one is payable at five days'
sight. It is virtually impossible to read the amount
payable, but the tax should have been at least five cents.

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Miller and Patterson buying supplies for their railroad
crew using their Hussey and Dahler account. Ornstein
and Popper were among the few Jewish settlers in Salt
Lake City, and made their living as butchers and soap
and candle makers.

Obviously, Hussey and Dahler had not yet formed the
First National Bank of Utah yet by April of 1869, or they
ran it as a separate entity from Hussey, Dahler & Co. The
first explanation is the most likely, as we see little, if any,
Hussey and Dahler paper after 1869.

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Wells, Fargo was operating out of Salt Lake City by
the end of the 1860’s. This is a two-sided receipt: this
side for payment of wages and expenses to William A.
Montgomery.

Although this receipt wasn’t used until 1871, it is
datelined to be used in the 1860’s. William Jennings
was a prominent merchant in Salt Lake City, serving as
Mayor from 1882 to 1885.

Jennings was a successful dry goods merchant in the
early 1860s, and in 1864 he constructed a large building,

the Eagle Emporium, to serve as its headquarters. Hence
the eagle vignette on his receipts?

By 1869 the Mormons were well into cooperative
marketing and purchasing, and the Eagle Emporium
was sold to the Zion’s Cooperative Mercantile Division.

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While it would not have affected Jennings unfavorably,
in 1868 Mormons were told not to trade with any non-
Mormon. The cooperative movement was established for
four purposes:

1. Keep down prices

2. Foster home industries

3. Consolidate the material interests of the settlers in the
face of strong competition, and

4. Distribute general merchandise to the people at a small
margin of profit.

For whatever reason, Jennings must have divested himself
of his retail business by 1871. In 1869 he had helped
organize the Utah Central Railroad Company and became
a Vice-president. Later he served as President of the Utah
Southern and a director of the Deseret National Bank.

Samuel P. Teasdel, who signed the receipt, served as an
employee of Jennings and then became a salesman for the
ZCMI.

While we’re ahead of ourselves, here’s an 1875 check from
the Deseret National Bank.

To be continued.

Keep Trying

You’ll Get It Right!

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Some of My Favorite Checks

Les Winners

Chattanooga Medicine Company

In 1879 Chattanooga businessman Zeboim Cartter Patten
and a group of friends established the Chattanooga
Medicine Company. Its first two products, Black-Draught
and Wine of Cardui, were so successful that they were sold
well into the twentieth century. Patten procured the formula
rights to Black-Draught, a senna-based laxative, from the
grandson of its originator, Dr. A. Q. Simmons. The name
Black-Draught probably derived from the dark drink given
to sailors in the British navy. Wine of Cardui was a uterine
sedative, whose name derived from Carduus benedictus,
a synonym for botanical Cnicus benedictus. According to
tradition, Wine of Cardui originated among the Cherokee
Indians.

Fred F. Wiehl was the company’s first president, but Patten,
in the role of secretary, guided the business to success. By
the 1880s Patten had acquired almost total ownership of
the company. Wiehl was succeeded as company president,
first by the newspaper publisher Adolph S. Ochs, who was
followed by developer Colonel A. M. Johnson before Patten
took the title of president in 1891.

Successful at finding new products to sell, Patten used
imaginative promotional techniques to market his products,

becoming one of the early practitioners of mass-market
advertising. He made the widely distributed Cardui Calendar
and the Ladies Birthday Almanac popular throughout the
South. The company became one of the region’s largest
drug manufacturers. In 1906 Patten and his son-in-law,
John Thomas Lupton, sold their controlling interests in the
business to Patten’s nephew and assistant, John A. Patten,
who created a legendary force of salesmen and expanded
sales into foreign countries.

For most of its history the company specialized in producing
medicinal products to relieve pain and discomfort. In 1935
Dr. Irvine W. Grote of the University of Chattanooga
developed the analgesic balm known as ’’Soltice’’ for the
company. In 1939 the company expanded its products,
modernized its production and research facilities, and
developed a chemicals division. During World War II the
company became the largest producer of K-rations and
a major supplier of ammonia. Postwar products include
Pamprin, Flex-all, Icy Hot, pHisoderm, and Norwich
aspirin. Today the company operates under the name of
Chattem, Inc. In 1995 the specialty chemicals division was
sold.

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I thought I’d pass this check along as one of my very favorites.
As you know I’m a collector checks and some stocks with
machinery, manufacturing, industrial vignettes. This
particular Wickes Bros, check really caught my attention.
After doing some research about the machine I contacted
the historian at VintageMachinery.org and enclosed a scan
of the check. Here’s his response:

’’That is a lovely cheque!

The machine pictured is a gang sawmill. The picture is hard
to understand because the bottom of the machine—where
the man is standing—would be one storey below the saw
carriage, which isn’t shown. At the top of the machine is a
frame containing a set of a dozen or so vertical sawblades.
A cant, which is a squared-off saw log, is fed into the blades

between the two horizontal rollers, reducing the cant into
a bunch of boards. This type of saw was used mainly for
making boards for flooring and siding.”

A bit of history:

Wickes Brothers, a partnership of Henry, Edward, and
Charles Wickes, made reciprocating sawmills from about
1870 to at least 1954. The specialized in gang sawmills. In
the early 1900s the also made heavy engine lathes, and after
that time they specialized in crankshaft lathes that for the
automobile and heavy engine manufacturing industry.

By 1954, Wickes Brothers was a division of Wickes Corp.
Another Wickes product line, stationary boilers, had by this
time already been spun out into a separate line of business,
Wickes Boiler Co.

Editor’s note: There is a later version of the Wickes Brothers
check with the same vignette.

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Pennsylvania Non-bank Paper 2

by Bob Hohertz

To begin, here’s a Type Cl bill of exchange that was left out
of the list last issue. It was issued in Philadelphia, payable
by a bank in London. I don’t believe that it was in the PA
bank inventory.

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The Atlantic & Great Western charging the Jefferson, By 1874 the J, M & I was leased to the Pennsylvania
Madison & Indianapolis for hauling their cars.. Company, but its Auditor was still in Louisville.

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The Western Insurance & Transportation Company was
incorporated in 1856 and organized in 1863 as the Union
Insurance and Transportation Company. Difficulties with
insuring the time of delivery and safety of the freight caused
the company to drop the insurance feature in 1865 and
change the name to the Union Railroad & Transportation
Company.

By 1873 the Pennsylvania Railroad was taking control of
all of the lines that the Star Union ran on, so the latter sold
the Pennsylvania Company all of their properties, good will
and rights in that year. While the Star Union ceased to exist,
their name was retained by the Pennsylvania Company for
through freight service.

As mentioned in the last issue, the Pennsylvania Company
was a holding company, formed in 1870 to own and operate
the Western Lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

This draft appears to be moving money from one part of the
organization to another. It is for ’’Rent of the Ry between
Pgh & Rochester for Mo of August" and directed to the
Auditor of the C & P R.R. (op by Penn. Co.), Cleveland,
Ohio. The Cleveland & Pittsburgh had become part of the
Pennsylvania system at the end of 1871.

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The Ashtabula, Youngstown & Pittsburgh was incorporated
in 1870. It was completed and opened for operation on May
1, 1873.

As of March 1, 1872 the railroad had executed a contract
with the Pennsylvania Company, granting it the right to
operate the line for 99 years, starting January 1, 1873. The
annual payment to the Ashtabula was to be the net profits

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of the line, or, for five years, the amount necessary to pay
the Ashtabula's interest on its mortgage bonds, whichever
was greater.

The company seems to have never been financially sound.
In 1878 it was sold under foreclosure.

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Dateline

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The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway was
founded February 26, 1862 as a reorganization of the
bankrupt Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail Road.
It expanded over the 1860s by leases and purchases, and
in 1869 the Pennsylvania Rail Road leased it and began to
run it.

On April 1, 1871 the PFWC was transferred to the newly
formed Pennsylvania Company. This accounting draft from
1874 shows that relationship. Also note the similarity of
design between it and the draft above on this page and the
one on the following page.

Operation was transferred back to the Pennsylvania
Railroad in 1918.

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On April 30, 1868 the Pan Handle Railway Company, the
Holliday’s Cove Rail Road Company, and the Steubenville
and Indiana Railroad Company consolidated and formed the
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Saint Louis Railway Company.
On September 30, 1890 it consolidated with three other
railroads to form the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St.
Louis Railway Company.

To be continued.

Note the strong similarity of design this draft shares with
those on the previous page. It is also significant that Thomas
D. Messier signed all three of these drafts as Comptroller. On
the one above, he directs the draft to himself as Comptroller
of the Indianapolis and Vincennes Rail Road Company as
well. If we had one of their drafts, what would you bet that
it has the identical vignette?

A Find in the Marketplace

And a wish for peace and prosperity for all the New Year.

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